Tropescilloscope: Dressing as the Enemy

Wearing the uniforms of the Evil Army to sneak around their base. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Foreshadowing Historical-Domain Character Death by Adaptation Dark and Troubled Past Fan Disservice Comically Missing the Point Rule of Symbolism Kill 'em All Put on a Bus Straight Gay Evil Sounds Deep Last-Name Basis Department of Redundancy Department Cowboy Cop Nothing Is Scarier May–December Romance Broken Bird I'm a Humanitarian Distracted by the Sexy "Shaggy Dog" Story Creative Closing Credits Taking the Bullet Large Ham Happily Married Gratuitous English Ascended Extra Shown Their Work Early Installment Weirdness Leitmotif Character Development Rule of Cool Artistic License – Law Empathic Environment Aluminum Christmas Trees Covers Always Lie Needs Wiki Magic Love Super Strength Accidental Murder Broken Pedestal Cool Old Lady Retirony Our Vampires Are Different Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Real Life Writes the Plot War Is Hell Mama Bear Due to the Dead Obviously Evil The Voiceless The Dragon It's All About Me In Medias Res Fatal Flaw Betty and Veronica No OSHA Compliance Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Bilingual Bonus Maybe Ever After Rule of Funny He Knows Too Much Morality Pet All Girls Want Bad Boys Let's Get Dangerous! Black and Gray Morality Becoming the Mask Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Groin Attack All Just a Dream Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Insane Troll Logic Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy How We Got Here Kill It with Fire From Bad to Worse Bolivian Army Ending Berserk Button The Place Off-into-the-Distance Ending Red Shirt Tempting Fate Bland-Name Product Index of Film Westerns Flashback Police are Useless Took a Level in Jerkass A.I. Is a Crapshoot Sir Swears-a-Lot Malevolent Masked Men Decoy Protagonist Four-Temperament Ensemble Body Horror Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Disguised in Drag Heterosexual Life-Partners Fanservice An Arm and a Leg Whole Plot Reference Martial Arts Movie Evil Is Petty Self-Deprecation Reality Has No Subtitles Domestic Abuse All There in the Manual Big-Bad Ensemble Final Girl Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Big Guy Bait-and-Switch Black Comedy My Beloved Smother Cold-Blooded Torture Title Drop Red Herring Gone Horribly Right In Name Only Arranged Marriage Dies Wide Open Badass Longcoat Parental Incest Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Faking the Dead Protagonist Title Anti-Villain Five-Man Band Those Two Bad Guys Naked People Are Funny Big Bad Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Science Fiction Films Eureka Moment Interrupted Suicide Hypocritical Humor Sealed Evil in a Can Drill Sergeant Nasty '80s Hair The Alleged Car This Is Gonna Suck Biopic Heroes Want Redheads Action Girl Faux Affably Evil Ungrateful Bastard Match Cut Does This Remind You of Anything? All There in the Script Catch-Phrase Bloodier and Gorier Mind Screw Handicapped Badass Not Even Bothering with the Accent Toplessness from the Back Evil Counterpart Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Bare Your Midriff Psychological Thriller Retired Badass I Have Your Wife Black Comedy Rape Fainting Victoria's Secret Compartment Mad Scientist Line-of-Sight Name Totally Radical Bowdlerise Children Are Innocent Gold Digger Badass in a Nice Suit O.O.C. Is Serious Business The '90s Early-Bird Cameo Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Amoral Attorney Gainax Ending Freeze-Frame Bonus Demoted to Extra Translation Convention Psychopathic Manchild Running Gag Not Quite Dead Broken Aesop Not So Stoic Adaptational Heroism Television Movie Index Those Two Guys You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Dramatic Irony Villain Protagonist Actor Allusion Ominous Latin Chanting Darkest Hour Amusing Injuries Dwindling Party Retcon Better to Die than Be Killed Wham Line Frame-Up Dual Wielding Exact Words Dressing as the Enemy Author Avatar Deus ex Machina Twist Ending Deliberately Monochrome Together in Death Oh, Crap! Leave the Camera Running Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Fatal Family Photo The Starscream No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Laughing Mad Adaptational Badass Sinister Minister Break the Cutie Loads and Loads of Characters Punny Name Fire-Forged Friends La Résistance Captain Obvious Obfuscating Stupidity Disney Death Big Eater Shoot the Shaggy Dog Mexican Standoff Offscreen Moment of Awesome Butt-Monkey Lighter and Softer Dirty Old Man Closed Circle Red Eyes, Take Warning Continuity Nod Did Not Get the Girl Well-Intentioned Extremist As the Good Book Says... Loophole Abuse Training Montage Cat Scare Romantic Comedy Deadpan Snarker Made of Explodium Creepy Child Corpsing Ship Tease Crucified Hero Shot Manic Pixie Dream Girl All for Nothing The Mafia Knife Nut Antagonist Title Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Fantasy Films Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Left the Background Music On Revenge Canadian Movies Lock and Load Montage Nice Guy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Dramedy Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism One-Man Army Hollywood Darkness Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies After the End Eiffel Tower Effect Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Artistic License – Gun Safety Bond Villain Stupidity Be Careful What You Wish For He Who Fights Monsters Naïve Newcomer It's Personal Word of God Ms. Fanservice Hooker with a Heart of Gold NO INDOOR VOICE Exactly What It Says on the Tin Dogged Nice Guy Fake Shemp Manly Tears Fat Bastard The Lancer Earn Your Happy Ending Light Is Not Good Brainless Beauty Red Right Hand Slashed Throat Parental Neglect Sadistic Choice The Bully Works Set in World War II Only a Flesh Wound Sanity Slippage Cool Shades Face Death with Dignity Evil vs. Evil The Quiet One Hero Antagonist Reality Ensues Anachronic Order Up to Eleven Reasonable Authority Figure Red Oni, Blue Oni Fanservice Extra Kids Are Cruel Every Car Is a Pinto Adult Fear Cool Car Spiteful Spit Getting Crap Past the Radar One-Word Title Redemption Equals Death Riddle for the Ages Freudian Excuse Adaptation Name Change 20 Minutes into the Future Blood from the Mouth Manipulative Bastard Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Token Minority Danny Peary Cult Movies List Facial Horror Hero of Another Story Rich Bitch The Un-Reveal The Ghost Genre Shift Take a Third Option Unreliable Narrator More Dakka World of Ham Stock Footage Vomit Indiscretion Shot Worthy Opponent Your Head A-Splode Driven to Suicide Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Parental Substitute Gorn Real Life The Musical Coming-of-Age Story Married to the Job Dropped a Bridge on Him Armor-Piercing Question Meaningful Name Papa Wolf Eyepatch of Power Logo Joke "The Reason You Suck" Speech Stepford Smiler Hope Spot Punch-Clock Villain Gilligan Cut Visual Pun Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Crazy Jealous Guy Adaptational Villainy Police Brutality Demonic Possession Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Russian Films The X of Y Vacation Films Not So Above It All Vitriolic Best Buds Off with His Head! Death by Irony An Aesop Even Evil Has Loved Ones Documentary Rousing Speech Genre Throwback Artistic License – History Pragmatic Adaptation Here We Go Again! Adaptational Attractiveness Evil Is Hammy Wretched Hive Hair-Trigger Temper Ax-Crazy Eagleland Almost Kiss Villain with Good Publicity Black Best Friend Face–Heel Turn Guns Akimbo Bad Boss Immune to Bullets Expository Hairstyle Change Bond One-Liner Dark Reprise Karma Houdini Unspoken Plan Guarantee Our Zombies Are Different Foregone Conclusion Taking You with Me All Men Are Perverts Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Posthumous Character The Stinger Adaptation Dye-Job Disappeared Dad Epic Fail Based on a True Story Unwitting Instigator of Doom You Killed My Father Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Curse Cut Short Calling the Old Man Out Heel Realization Evil Laugh Improvised Weapon Cool Guns Card-Carrying Villain MacGuffin Foil Undying Loyalty And Starring Ambiguous Disorder Race Against the Clock Central Theme Genre Savvy Villain Opening Scene The Stoic Eye Scream Black Dude Dies First The Power of Love Bar Brawl Damsel in Distress Plot Hole "Well Done, Son!" Guy Manchild Action Survivor Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Historical In-Joke Dramatic Gun Cock Death by Sex Shipper on Deck Overprotective Dad Fish out of Water Blood Knight Wrong Genre Savvy Improbable Aiming Skills The Dreaded As Long as It Sounds Foreign Sequel Escalation BFG Determinator aka: The Determinator Deliberate Values Dissonance Animal Title Index Defiant to the End Guile Hero Only Sane Man Bavarian Fire Drill Woman in White Adorkable Mugging the Monster Yandere Very Loosely Based on a True Story She Cleans Up Nicely Camp Gay Costume Porn Ambiguous Ending Once More, with Clarity! Make It Look Like an Accident Say My Name Heroic Sacrifice Meaningful Background Event Heroic BSoD Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Plucky Comic Relief The '70s Grey and Gray Morality Kick the Son of a Bitch Not Using the "Z" Word Spiritual Successor Badass Grandpa Artistic License – Physics Names to Run Away from Really Fast Mythology Gag Never Trust a Trailer Femme Fatale My God, What Have I Done? Cruel and Unusual Death The '80s Crazy-Prepared Hidden Depths Action Prologue Adaptation Expansion Jump Scare German Films Chekhov's Gunman Big "NO!" Arch-Enemy Chekhov's Skill Hong Kong Films Friend to All Children Star-Crossed Lovers Paper-Thin Disguise Film Noir Cool Old Guy Arc Words Motor Mouth Christmas Movies Index French Films Imagine Spot Heel–Face Turn Insistent Terminology Man on Fire Disney Villain Death Bloody Hilarious Bald of Evil Missing Mom And I Must Scream Insult Backfire Laser-Guided Karma Everyone Has Standards No Celebrities Were Harmed The Cameo Humans Are Bastards The Smurfette Principle Bury Your Gays Captain Ersatz Evil Brit Brother–Sister Incest Humiliation Conga Outrun the Fireball Wham Shot The Mole Chekhov's Gun Beauty Is Never Tarnished Military and Warfare Films Bloodless Carnage Zombie Stories Deconstruction Time Skip Madness Mantra Slasher Smile The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Cloudcuckoolander Blatant Lies The Alcoholic Evil-Detecting Dog And the Adventure Continues Henpecked Husband Idiot Ball No Antagonist Beard of Evil Sacrificial Lion Combat Pragmatist Artistic License – Biology Product Placement Shut Up, Hannibal! folderlabel Jerkass Has a Point The Brute Poor Communication Kills Older Than They Look Small Name, Big Ego Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Shell-Shocked Veteran Shower Scene Downer Ending Drowning My Sorrows Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Oner Australian Movies Suspiciously Similar Substitute Advertised Extra Alliterative Name Good Is Not Nice Really Gets Around Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Credits Gag Spared by the Adaptation Babies Ever After A God Am I Canon Foreigner Get Out! Men Are the Expendable Gender Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bound and Gagged Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Car Fu The Casanova Expy Death Glare An Axe to Grind Darker and Edgier Serious Business True Companions Asshole Victim Serial Killer Authority Equals Asskicking The Dog Bites Back Thriller Artistic License – Military Death of a Child Bi the Way Mr. Exposition Accidental Misnaming Agony of the Feet No Name Given Pimped-Out Dress Lampshade Hanging Brutal Honesty Mr. Fanservice Politically Incorrect Villain Awesome, but Impractical The Hero Sci-Fi Horror Stylistic Suck Ambiguously Gay Unusually Uninteresting Sight Depraved Bisexual Spell My Name with an "S" Video Credits Intergenerational Friendship One Steve Limit Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Homage Woman Scorned Throwing Your Sword Always Works Male Gaze Moment Killer Not So Different The Ace Dying Moment of Awesome Cain and Abel Unusual Euphemism Despair Event Horizon Took a Level in Badass Scary Black Man Badass Bookworm Bring My Brown Pants Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Dark Is Not Evil Kubrick Stare It Will Never Catch On Catapult Nightmare Stealth Pun Parental Abandonment Room Full of Crazy Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Intrepid Reporter Show Within a Show I Need a Freaking Drink Abusive Parents Disproportionate Retribution Those Wacky Nazis Wounded Gazelle Gambit Back from the Dead Hell Is That Noise Film Series Non-Indicative Name Grievous Bottley Harm Sexy Discretion Shot Unresolved Sexual Tension Funny Background Event The Cavalry Tagline In the Back I Did What I Had to Do Smug Snake Pretty Little Headshots Anti-Hero Artistic License – Geography Age Lift Vampire Fiction Cluster F-Bomb Truth in Television Refuge in Audacity Meet Cute Suddenly SHOUTING! Big Applesauce Jerk with a Heart of Gold The '60s I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The End... Or Is It? Scenery Gorn Aside Glance You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Historical Hero Upgrade Suspiciously Specific Denial Abhorrent Admirer The Load Break the Haughty Anyone Can Die It Can Think Anachronism Stew Japanese Films Overly Long Gag Does Not Like Shoes Anguished Declaration of Love Race Lift Dutch Angle The Reveal The Bad Guy Wins Crapsack World Historical Villain Upgrade The Great Depression Pragmatic Villainy Tranquil Fury Would Hurt a Child Air-Vent Passageway Double-Meaning Title Drugs Are Bad Action Genre Improbable Weapon User Destination Defenestration Horror Films Chase Scene As Himself Deal with the Devil Dirty Cop Storming the Castle Call-Back Obstructive Bureaucrat The Chessmaster The Sociopath Camera Abuse Dissonant Serenity Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Fun with Acronyms Silence Is Golden Villain Ball Silent Movie Villain Song Badass Normal Rated M for Manly Evil Plan Random Events Plot Attempted Rape Fourth Date Marriage Pretty in Mink Breaking the Fourth Wall The Atoner Shout-Out Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Knight Templar Casting Gag Double Entendre Mercy Kill Offscreen Teleportation Book-Ends Implacable Man timeperiod Creator Cameo What Happened to the Mouse? Music Stories Only in It for the Money Sports Stories Informed Ability Bunny-Ears Lawyer Rewatch Bonus Karmic Death Love Triangle The Hero Dies Italian Films The Smart Guy Sassy Black Woman Adults Are Useless Rasputinian Death Even Evil Has Standards The Stoner I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Rule of Three Pay Evil unto Evil Precision F-Strike B-Movie Your Cheating Heart As You Know Hate Sink Psycho for Hire Important Haircut Vomit Discretion Shot Call-Forward Adapted Out Hoist by His Own Petard Composite Character Love at First Sight Take That! Skewed Priorities Bittersweet Ending Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Would Hit a Girl Affectionate Parody Scare Chord Romantic False Lead Only One Name Ghost Fiction The Lost Lenore Smoking Is Cool Fingore Honor Before Reason Setting Update Wicked Cultured Soft Glass Big Bad Duumvirate Easily Forgiven Chiaroscuro Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Developing Doomed Characters Hollywood Law Dull Surprise What You Are in the Dark There Is No Kill Like Overkill Award-Bait Song Extreme Doormat Same Language Dub Public Domain Feature Films Affably Evil No-Sell Greater-Scope Villain The Remake A Date with Rosie Palms The '50s You Have Failed Me Roaring Rampage of Revenge Gory Discretion Shot Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Flipping the Bird Alpha Bitch Famous Last Words Peek-a-Boo Corpse Batman Gambit No Ending Irony Reckless Gun Usage For Want of a Nail Sequel Hook Country Matters Superhero From Nobody to Nightmare Horror Comedy Cassandra Truth Villainous Breakdown Novelization Dirty Coward Kick the Dog A Father to His Men Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Fantastic Racism Bottomless Magazines Auto Erotica Determinator Playing Gertrude Cat Fight Diabolus ex Machina Half the Man He Used to Be Instant Death Bullet Market-Based Title Major Injury Underreaction Contrived Coincidence Only Known by Their Nickname Jerkass Shirtless Scene Tap on the Head Neck Lift Beware the Nice Ones Spanner in the Works Adaptation Distillation Stealth Hi/Bye Green-Eyed Monster Rape as Drama Mood Whiplash Made of Iron Failed a Spot Check Dumb Blonde Big Damn Heroes Have a Gay Old Time Re-Cut Epic Movie Curb-Stomp Battle Reality Is Unrealistic For the Evulz Redshirt Army Establishing Character Moment Enemy Mine Meaningful Echo The Film of the Book The Chick Big Brother Instinct Big Fancy House Chewing the Scenery Dark Action Girl Author Appeal Defrosting Ice Queen The Faceless Didn't Think This Through Soundtrack Dissonance Never Found the Body Slasher Movie Gender Flip Jitter Cam Extremely Short Timespan Drives Like Crazy She's Got Legs Animated Credits Opening Fate Worse than Death Boom, Headshot! Pre-Mortem One-Liner Killed Mid-Sentence Properly Paranoid Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Ditz Funny Foreigner Male Frontal Nudity Film Noir Index N-Word Privileges Death Seeker Animal Motifs Neck Snap Trailers Always Spoil Ripped from the Headlines Bullying a Dragon Pet the Dog